The Green Mile
The Green Mile (1999)
Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.
Tom Hanks
Michael Clarke Duncan
David Morse
Frank Darabont
There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Drama
The intersecting life stories of Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday in early twentieth century California is presented. Miner turn oilman Daniel Plainview is a driven man who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. He works hard but he also takes advantage of those around him at their expense... [show more]
Daniel Day-Lewis
Paul Dano
Ciarán Hinds
Paul Thomas Anderson
Rush
Rush (2013)
Biography, Drama, Sport
Set against the sexy, glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s, the film is based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between handsome English playboy James Hunt (Hemsworth), and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda (Bruhl). The story follows their... [show more]
Daniel Brühl
Chris Hemsworth
Olivia Wilde
Ron Howard
Autumn Sonata
Autumn Sonata (1978)
Drama, Music
After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her.... [show more]
Ingrid Bergman
Liv Ullmann
Lena Nyman
Ingmar Bergman
Rain Man
Rain Man (1988)
Drama
Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1949 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father... [show more]
Dustin Hoffman
Tom Cruise
Valeria Golino
Barry Levinson
A Woman Under the Influence
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Drama, Romance
Peter Falk is a blue collar man trying to deal with his wife's mental instability. He fights to keep a semblance of normality in the face of her bizarre behavior, but when her actions affect their children, he has her committed.
Gena Rowlands
Peter Falk
Fred Draper
John Cassavetes
Her
Her (2013)
Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Theodore is a lonely man in the final stages of his divorce. When he's not working as a letter writer, his down time is spent playing video games and occasionally hanging out with friends. He decides to purchase the new OS1, which is advertised as the world's first artificially intelligent operating... [show more]
Joaquin Phoenix
Amy Adams
Scarlett Johansson
Spike Jonze
Sicko
Sicko (2007)
Documentary, Drama
Documentary look at health care in the United States as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free, universal care in Canada, the U.K., and France. Moore contrasts U.S. media reports on Canadian care with the experiences of Canadians in hospitals and clinics... [show more]
Michael Moore
Tucker Albrizzi
Tony Benn
Michael Moore
Bowling for Columbine
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Documentary, Crime, Drama
The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the... [show more]
Michael Moore
Charlton Heston
Marilyn Manson
Michael Moore
Inequality for All
Inequality for All (2013)
Documentary
A documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap.
Robert Reich
Lily Tomlin
Candice Bergen
Jacob Kornbluth
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
This is the story of Mr. Fox (George Clooney) and his wild ways of hen heckling, turkey taking, and cider sipping, nocturnal, instinctive adventures. He has to put his wild days behind him and do what fathers do best: be responsible. He is too rebellious. He is too wild. He is going to try "just one... [show more]
George Clooney
Meryl Streep
Bill Murray
Wes Anderson
Mystic River
Mystic River (2003)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the summer of 1975 in a neighborhood in Boston, three kids- Dave Boyle and his two friends, Jimmy Markum and Sean Devine- are playing on the sidewalk when Dave gets abducted by two men and endures days of sexual abuse. Eventually Dave escapes, but is traumatized throughout adulthood. Jimmy is an... [show more]
Sean Penn
Tim Robbins
Kevin Bacon
Clint Eastwood
Before Midnight
Before Midnight (2013)
Drama, Romance
It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters, but have spent a summer in Greece on the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send... [show more]
Ethan Hawke
Julie Delpy
Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Richard Linklater
Boogie Nights
Boogie Nights (1997)
Drama
Adult film director Jack Horner is always on the lookout for new talent and it's only by chance that he meets Eddie Adams who is working as a busboy in a restaurant. Eddie is young, good looking and plenty of libido to spare. Using the screen name Dirk Diggler, he quickly rises to the top of his... [show more]
Mark Wahlberg
Julianne Moore
Burt Reynolds
Paul Thomas Anderson
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Documentary, Biography, Music
Born January 22, 1961, the late Daniel Johnston began expressing himself through art as a child while doctors struggled to accurately diagnose his unusual behavior. In addition to drawing prolifically, he began using a boombox record curiously stirring songs to cassette tape in high school.... [show more]
Daniel Johnston
Mabel Johnston
Bill Johnston
Jeff Feuerzeig
The Sacrifice
The Sacrifice (1986)
Drama
Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have... [show more]
Erland Josephson
Susan Fleetwood
Allan Edwall
Andrei Tarkovsky
Shrek
Shrek (2001)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When a green ogre named Shrek discovers his swamp has been 'swamped' with all sorts of fairytale creatures by the scheming Lord Farquaad, Shrek sets out with a very loud donkey by his side to 'persuade' Farquaad to give Shrek his swamp back. Instead, a deal is made. Farquaad, who wants to become the... [show more]
Mike Myers
Eddie Murphy
Cameron Diaz
Andrew Adamson
Vicky Jenson
Sleuth
Sleuth (1972)
Mystery, Thriller
Andrew Wyke is a famous and successful author of detective novels. Milo Tindle comes to him with a strange request, that Mr Wyke divorce his wife so that Tindle can marry her. Mr Wyke is not particularly perturbed by this, he and his wife have drifted apart, and he is having an affair with another... [show more]
Laurence Olivier
Michael Caine
Alec Cawthorne
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Lion in Winter
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Biography, Drama, History
It's Christmas 1183, and King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) is planning to announce his successor to the throne. The jockeying for the crown, though, is complex. Henry has three sons and wants his boy Prince John (Nigel Terry) to take over. Henry's wife, Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), has other... [show more]
Peter O'Toole
Katharine Hepburn
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Harvey
Moon
Moon (2009)
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Sam Bell has a three year contract to work for Lunar Industries. For the contract's entire duration, he is the sole employee based at their lunar station. His primary job responsibility is to harvest and periodically rocket back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used... [show more]
Sam Rockwell
Kevin Spacey
Dominique McElligott
Duncan Jones
The Fighter
The Fighter (2010)
Action, Biography, Drama
The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.
Mark Wahlberg
Christian Bale
Amy Adams
David O. Russell
Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler (2014)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
NIGHTCRAWLER is a thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and... [show more]
Jake Gyllenhaal
Rene Russo
Bill Paxton
Dan Gilroy
Ed Wood
Ed Wood (1994)
Biography, Comedy, Drama
Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director Edward D. Wood Jr. is a Hollywood outcast. Nevertheless, with the help of the formerly famous Bela Lugosi and a devoted cast and crew of show-business misfits who believe in Ed's off-kilter vision, the filmmaker is able to bring... [show more]
Johnny Depp
Martin Landau
Sarah Jessica Parker
Tim Burton
Misery
Misery (1990)
Drama, Thriller
Best-selling novelist Paul Sheldon is on his way home from his Colorado hideaway after completing his latest book, when he crashes his car in a freak blizzard. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, Paul's "number one fan", who takes Paul back to her remote house in... [show more]
James Caan
Kathy Bates
Richard Farnsworth
Rob Reiner
Food, Inc.
Food, Inc. (2008)
Documentary, News
The current method of raw food production is largely a response to the growth of the fast food industry since the 1950s. The production of food overall has more drastically changed since that time than the several thousand years prior. Controlled primarily by a handful of multinational corporations,... [show more]
Michael Pollan
Eric Schlosser
Richard Lobb
Robert Kenner
The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Comedy, Drama
Beyond being in the same class at Shermer High School in Shermer, Illinois, Claire Standish, Andrew Clark, John Bender, Brian Johnson and Allison Reynolds have little in common, and with the exception of Claire and Andrew, do not associate with each other in school. In the simplest and in their own... [show more]
Emilio Estevez
Judd Nelson
Molly Ringwald
John Hughes
Hot Fuzz
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Action, Comedy, Mystery
Top London cop PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. To stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who endlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel until two actors are found... [show more]
Simon Pegg
Nick Frost
Martin Freeman
Edgar Wright
Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Animation, Action, Adventure
When a devastating event befalls the city of San Fransokyo and catapults Hiro into the midst of danger, he turns to Baymax and his close friends adrenaline junkie Go Go Tomago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fred. Determined to uncover the mystery, Hiro transforms his friends... [show more]
Ryan Potter
Scott Adsit
Jamie Chung
Don Hall
Chris Williams
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Documentary
In San Francisco, there are at least two flocks of largely wild parrots who flock around the city. This film focuses on the flock of cherry-headed conures (and a lonely blue-headed one named Connor) who flock around the Telegraph Hill region of the city and their closest human companion, Mark... [show more]
Mark Bittner
Maggie McCall
Ivan Stormgart
Judy Irving
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Documentary, Music
In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. Over a fourteen year period they were the heartbeat on every hit from Motown's Detroit era. By the end of their phenomenal run, this unheralded group... [show more]
Joe Hunter
Jack Ashford
Uriel Jones
Paul Justman
The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. The result is that he is the most closely guarded man in the world. As a desperate act, they hire The Jackal, the code name for a hired killer who agrees to kill... [show more]
Edward Fox
Terence Alexander
Michel Auclair
Fred Zinnemann
The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
Comedy, Drama, Musical
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange composes and teaches the piano. Maxence is a poet and a painter. He is doing his military service. Simon owns a music shop, he left Paris once month ago to come back where he fell in love 10 years... [show more]
Catherine Deneuve
George Chakiris
Françoise Dorléac
Jacques Demy
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect. Groundbreaking interaction between the live and... [show more]
Bob Hoskins
Christopher Lloyd
Joanna Cassidy
Robert Zemeckis
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 (1995)
Adventure, Drama, History
Based on the true story of the ill-fated 13th Apollo mission bound for the moon. Astronauts Lovell, Haise and Swigert were scheduled to fly Apollo 14, but are moved up to 13. It's 1970, and The US has already achieved their lunar landing goal, so there's little interest in this "routine" flight..... [show more]
Tom Hanks
Bill Paxton
Kevin Bacon
Ron Howard
Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation (2003)
Comedy, Drama
Middle-aged American movie star Bob Harris is in Tokyo to film a personal endorsement Suntory whiskey ad solely for the Japanese market. He is past his movie star prime, but his name and image still have enough cachet for him to have gotten this lucrative $2 million job. He has an unsatisfying home... [show more]
Bill Murray
Scarlett Johansson
Giovanni Ribisi
Sofia Coppola
The Magdalene Sisters
The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Drama
A thoroughly mind-provoking film about 3 young women who, under tragic circumstances, see themselves cast away to a Magdalene Asylum for young women in 1964. One of many like institutions, the asylums are run like prisons and young girls are forced to do workhouse laundry and hard labor. The asylum,... [show more]
Eileen Walsh
Dorothy Duffy
Nora-Jane Noone
Peter Mullan
Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Puppeteer Craig Schwartz and animal lover and pet store clerk Lotte Schwartz are just going through the motions of their marriage. Despite not being able to earn a living solely through puppeteering, Craig loves his profession as it allows him to inhabit the skin of others. He begins to take the... [show more]
John Cusack
Cameron Diaz
Catherine Keener
Spike Jonze
Serpico
Serpico (1973)
Biography, Crime, Drama
Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico, and he's in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his "partners". Nothing seems to... [show more]
Al Pacino
John Randolph
Jack Kehoe
Sidney Lumet
Blazing Saddles
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Comedy, Western
The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar (Harvey Korman), a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands... [show more]
Cleavon Little
Gene Wilder
Slim Pickens
Mel Brooks
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Documentary, Biography
The film traces Kevin Clash's rise from his modest beginnings in Baltimore to his current success as the man behind Elmo, one of the world's most recognizable and adored characters. Millions of children tune in daily to watch Elmo, yet when Kevin walks down the street he is not recognized. Pivotal... [show more]
Kevin Clash
Whoopi Goldberg
Frank Oz
Constance Marks
Philip Shane
1776
1776 (1972)
Drama, Family, History
The film version of the Broadway musical comedy of the same name. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies... [show more]
William Daniels
Howard Da Silva
Ken Howard
Peter H. Hunt
Only Yesterday
Only Yesterday (1991)
Animation, Drama, Romance
A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.
Miki Imai
Toshirô Yanagiba
Yoko Honna
Isao Takahata
The Filth and the Fury
The Filth and the Fury (2000)
Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary about the punk band The Sex Pistols. The film tries to lighten some of the backgrounds of their way through the punk era while telling the story of the band from zero back to zero. Features lots of interviews and comments of folks who were involved.
Paul Cook
Steve Jones
John Lydon
Julien Temple
Down by Law
Down by Law (1986)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn't commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the English language is both entertaining and infuriating. More useful to them is the fact... [show more]
Tom Waits
John Lurie
Roberto Benigni
Jim Jarmusch
50/50
50/50 (2011)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Adam is a 27 year old writer of radio programs and is diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer. With the help of his best friend, his mother, and a young therapist at the cancer center, Adam learns what and who the most important things in his life are.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Seth Rogen
Anna Kendrick
Jonathan Levine
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Documentary, Music
A group of legendary Cuban musicians, some as old as their nineties, were brought together by Ry Cooder to record a CD. In this film, we see and hear some of the songs being recorded in Havana. There is also footage from concerts in Amsterdam and New York City's Carnegie Hall. In addition, many of... [show more]
Compay Segundo
Ibrahim Ferrer
Rubén González
Wim Wenders
Rushmore
Rushmore (1998)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Max Fischer is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his attendance at Rushmore, a private school where he's not doing well in any of his classes, but where he's the king of extracurricular activities - from being in the beekeeping society to writing and producing plays, there's very... [show more]
Jason Schwartzman
Bill Murray
Olivia Williams
Wes Anderson
Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Biography, Drama, History
Writer Peter Morgan's legendary battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the story of the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after being forced from... [show more]
Frank Langella
Michael Sheen
Kevin Bacon
Ron Howard
The Station Agent
The Station Agent (2003)
Comedy, Drama
When his only friend and co-worker dies, a young man born with dwarfism moves to an abandoned train depot in rural New Jersey. Though he tried to maintain a life of solitude, he is soon entangled with an artist who is struggling with a personal tragedy and an overly friendly Cuban hot-dog vendor.
Peter Dinklage
Patricia Clarkson
Bobby Cannavale
Tom McCarthy
Short Cuts
Short Cuts (1993)
Comedy, Drama
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away,... [show more]
Andie MacDowell
Julianne Moore
Tim Robbins
Robert Altman